German Man Gets 90 Covid-19 Shots So He Could Sell Forged Vaccine Passports To Anti-Vaxxers: Reports

The 60-year-old was caught at a vaccination centre where he turned up for a Covid shot for two consecutive days. Several blank vaccination cards were confiscated from him.

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New Delhi: A 60-year-old man in Germany allegedly got himself vaccinated against Covid-19 nearly 100 times as he devised a novel way to earn some quick bucks. He would sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people who did not want to get themselves vaccinated, news reports said.

According to a news report in AP, the man from Magdeburg in eastern Germany is said to have received up to 90 shots against Covid-19 at vaccination centres across the state of Saxony over the past few months, until law caught up with him recently.

Quoting German news agency dpa, the AP report said the name of the suspect was not released by the police due to German privacy rules.

The man is now under investigation for unauthorised issuance of vaccination cards and document forgery.

According to the report, he was caught at a vaccination centre in Eilenburg where he turned up for a Covid shot for two consecutive days. Several blank vaccination cards were confiscated from him, and the police have initiated criminal proceedings.

The report did not mention what kind of health impact so many shots of Covid vaccines, from different brands, could have on someone.

Germany has reported many cases of forgery of Covid-19 vaccination passports in recent months, and the police have been conducting raids in connection with this, the AP report said. 

Vaccination passport is a much sought-after document because many restaurants, theatres, gyms, swimming pools, offices and other venues allow people only when they produce one.

Forged passports come to the aid of those people, mostly Covid deniers, who refuse to get vaccinated but want to have the passports that make access to public life easier.